From Respite to Revision: Why Hiking in the Mountains Is Good For Novel Writing

Yes, I have been missing here for awhile, but I have been crazy busy: a glorious trip to Colorado to hike the Flat Irons and listening to my little granddaughter tell me stories about woodpeckers, tigers, and trains. It was also a chance to revisit in my mind the novels I am gently re-editing. In Sadar's Keep, most of the novel takes place in the Avadares Mountains -- and finding myself with my family hiking through the beautiful Colorado Front range, my imagination was fueled and fed.

I am almost done with re-editing the second book of the Oran trilogy (the first one is at the copy editor) and I think on track to get all three books out in kindle by October. But, since my trip to the mountains, I also have been working on a fourth book in the Oran series because it feels like there should have been one -- so hoping to get that out as a bonus at the same time as the others for those who have been asking for the kindle editions.